Graeae

• daughters of Phorcus (hence Phorcydes) and Ceto, sisters and guardians of the Gorgons, gray-haired from their birth, having but one eye and one tooth among them, Hyg. praef. p. 7 Munck.

(Γραῖαι). “The old women,” daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, and three in number— Pephredo, Enyo, and Dino, also called Phorcydes. They had gray hair from their birth, and only one tooth and one eye in common, which they borrowed from each other when they needed them. See Hesiod, Theog. 270.